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In Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan neither indicts nor vindicates the physicist. Instead, he offers a study of a man full of contradictions.

Director Christopher Nolan and star Cillian Murphy never heroicize or sanctify their physics

Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced on Wednesday, July 19, that he will be stepping down after a panel of experts found significant flaws in various studies that he had supervised more than a decade ago.

The biopic director argues that the physicist who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb was both the most important person who ever lived and hopelessly naïve.

“To the outside world, he was always known as a German Jew, and he always insisted that he was neither German nor Jewish,” said author Ray Monk.

"Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolans masterful portrait of the man known as the father of the atomic bomb, has been anticipated with some skepticism among filmgoers who wonder how Nolans penchant for

Hundreds of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were women. They were physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians. Today we bring you the story of one of them.

He was both historys conquerer and historys victim. In December 1983, Esquire reflected on the life, times, and death of the architect of destruction. 

This October 1967 article by the Bulletin's editorial board commemorated Oppenheimer’s impact as the first chairman of the Bulletin’s board.

Higher education mergers and acquisitions have doubled in the past ten years. What characteristics do successful strategic alliances share?